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Saturday Night Live announced new staff writer hires last week in advance of its 43rd season premiere. But SNL usually doesn’t put out press releases or make much ado about the comings and goings of its writers, whether because they don’t want to trumpet when someone gets hired only for …
NBC announced that it has added three new cast members — Heidi Gardner, Luke Null and Chris Redd — to the Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live franchise for its 43rd season, which debuts this Saturday, Sept. 30. Gardner comes from the Groundlings main company in Los Angeles. She is also the …
Would you believe Saturday Night Live took home the most Emmy Awards in 2017? Weird, right. But without Game of Thrones, or Mad Men, or Breaking Bad, or The Sopranos before them, there was no eligible primetime drama that really caught America’s full attention as much as the news and …
After four decades and a couple of years, the folks on the West Coast and Rocky Mountains will get to watch SNL when the East Coast does, actually live on the TV. Sorry, Hawaii and Alaska. Double sorry, Guam. NBC announced today that it’ll air Saturday Night Live at 11:30 p.m. Eastern, …
Saturday Night Live brought back a limited-edition primetime half-hour version of Weekend Update last night. It’s not exactly the same as when they first tried this in 2008. For one thing, those Thursday-night live episodes happened in the run-up to a presidential election. So, secondly, they featured cold opens dealing …
After the final goodbyes at the end of the 42nd season finale of Saturday Night Live, after the NBC cameras turned off, the cast and guest stars paid one last tribute to departing cast members Bobby Moynihan, Vanessa Bayer and Sasheer Zamata. Moynihan, after nine seasons, will star in his …
It’s official. Bobby Moynihan’s final episode as a cast member of Saturday Night Live happens this Saturday with the season finale hosted by The Rock. Moynihan appeared across Manhattan today at the CBS Upfronts to help introduce the new sitcom he’s starring in, Me, Myself & I. Me, Myself & I will …
If Kenan Thompson comes back to Saturday Night Live — whether in May or this fall (depending upon a potential WGA strike) — he’d be due to start his record-setting 15th season as a cast member on the venerable network TV sketch comedy program. No one would fault Thompson for …
This is the look on Louis CK’s face right after he told a live television audience that he’d like to buy a goat so he could have “a trash can that I can make love to.” Yep. CK grins in a way that lets you know how much he can’t …
After announcing the return of Louis CK to host April 8, and a summer primetime edition of Weekend Update, Saturday Night Live is doing something truly unprecedented to end its 42nd season — broadcasting live for the entire United States. UPROXX got the scoop. The final four episodes of SNL …
